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- | {{:green-future.jpg?200|Another World}}====== Is Another World REALLY Possible? ====== | + | {{:green-future.jpg?200|Another World}}==== Future Historians: Is Another World REALLY Possible? ==== |
- | ===== Study Group and Collaborative Writing Project ===== | + | **International Study Group and Collaborative Writing Project**\\ |
- | + | sponsored by Marxist Education Project and Victor Serge Foundation / convened by Richard Greeman | |
- | Convened by **Richard Greeman** | + | |
- | Sponsored by **Marxist Education Project** and **Victor Serge Foundation** | + | Naomi Klein has reminded us that “No is not enough.” To save the planet from impending catastrophe, people need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. In other words, a credible picture of a possible Utopia and a plausible account of how to get there from here. But is "Another World" REALLY possible? |
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- | 2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” we need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful, egalitarian, democratic society on a damaged, but stabilized, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here - today’s capitalist death-spiral - to there - a livable, sustainable, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones - including philosopher **Peter Hudis** in Chicago and social ecologist **Brian Tokar** in Vermont - with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world with the potential to go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. | + | To answer that question, we Future Historians are performing a thought experiment: if there is even one chance in a hundred for a better world — we at least ought to be able to //imagine// it. So we place ourselves in the position of historians living in a peaceful, egalitarian, democratic society on a damaged, but stabilized, planet, in 2118. We cast our gaze back 100 years to 2018 and reconstruct HOW our great-grandparents got us from THEN — today’s capitalist death-spiral — to NOW: a sustainable, egalitarian global society, free of war, oppression and exploitation. For further information, see [[about-us|About Us]]. To begin, go to [[To the youth|To the Youth of 2118]]. |
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+ | For full access to this Wiki or other questions, send email to [[mailto:AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com|AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com]]// | ||
- | **Richard Greeman**, lifelong internationalist, is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). | ||
- | Sessions begin September 24, 2017. | ||
- | For more information contact [[mailto:AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com|AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com]] and visit our [[https://www.facebook.com/Another-World-is-Possible-NYC-474562302901538/|Facebook page]]. | ||
- | [[then_and_now|Let's Begin]] |